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Ecological Concepts and Environmental Science.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ashland :
Delve Publishing,
2019.
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| Colección: | Encyclopedia of Environmental Science ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Glossary; Preface; Summary; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. What Is Environmental Science?; 3.0. The History of Environmentalism; 4.0. Influential Environmentalists; 4.1. John Muir; 4.2. Aldo Leopold; 4.3. Rachael Carson; 4.4. Henry Thoreau; 4.5. Julia Hill; 5.0. Environmental Attitudes; 6.0. Multidisciplinary Nature of Environmental Science; 7.0. Environmental Impacts on Water, Air, and Land; 7.1. Natural Hazards and Impacts; 7.2. Anthropogenic Impacts on Air, Water, and Land
- 8.0. Environmental Disasters And Hazards8.1. Natural Disasters; 8.2. Geological and Hydrological Disasters; 8.3. Chemical Disasters; 8.4. Industrial and Technological Disasters; 8.5. Agricultural Disasters; 8.6. Biodiversity Disasters; 8.7. Human Health Disasters; 8.8. Nuclear Disasters; 9.0. Famous Environmental Disasters; 9.1. The Bhopal Disaster; 9.2. Chernobyl: Russian Nuclear Power Plant Explosion; 9.3. Seveso: Italian Dioxin Crisis; 9.4. The 1952 London Smog Disaster; 9.5. The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill; 9.6. The Love Canal Chemical Waste Dump; 9.7. The Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
- 9.8. The European Bse Crisis9.9. The Three Mile Island Accident; 9.10. The Bangladesh Arsenic Crisis; 9.11. The 2004 Asian Tsunami; 9.12. Hurricane Mitch; 9.13. The 1953 Dutch Flood Disaster; 9.14. The 1998 Roraima Wildfires In Brazil; 9.15. Mount Pinatubo Volcanic Eruption in the Philippines; 9.16. The Beijing Dust Storms; 9.17. The Bp Oil Spill; 10.0. Formation of the Solar System and Planet Earth; 10.1. Various Theories on How the Solar System Formed; 11.0. Geomorphological Processes; 11.1. Weathering; 11.2. Physical or Mechanical Weathering; 11.3. Biological or Organic Weathering
- 11.4. Chemical Weathering11.5. Erosion; 11.6. Mass Wasting; 11.7. Fluvial Processes; 11.8. Aeolian Erosion (Wind); 11.9. Glacial Processes; 12.0. Formation of Geological and Hydrological Structures; 12.1. Landforms; 12.2. Water Erosion and Deposition; 12.3. Wind Erosion and Deposition; 12.4. Coasts and Estuaries; 12.5. Ocean Gyres and Currents; 12.6. Glacial-Interglacial Cycles; 13.0. Components of the Environment; 13.1. Lithosphere; 13.2. Hydrosphere; 14.0. Components of the Atmosphere; 14.1. The Evolution and Composition of the Atmosphere; 14.2. The Structure of the Atmosphere
- 15.0. Energy from The Sun16.0. The Greenhouse Gas Effect; 16.1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 16.2. Impacts on the Environment from the Greenhouse Gas Effect; 17.0. Weather and Climate; 18.0. Structure of Ecosystems; 18.1. Components of An Ecosystem; 18.2. Abiotic Factors; 18.3. Temperature; 18.4. Light; 18.5. Water; 18.6. Edaphic Factors; 18.7. Biotic Factors; 18.8. Functions of An Ecosystem; 19.0. Environmental Interactions, Cycles, and Systems; 20.0. Biogeochemical Cycles; 20.1. What Drives Biogeochemical Systems?; 20.2. Soil, Water, and Air; 20.3. The Hydrological Cycle